Samuel Ackroyde [Akeroyde]

(fl. 1684-1706)

English composer who composed fluently but innocuously in a popular style. From about 1684 through the 1690s he was quite often employed by the Dukes Company (whose star composer from about 1685 was Henry Purcell) to write songs for the company. Musician in Ordinary for the violin in Private Musick from 1687 possibly through 1689. A City of London Wait from 1695.